Fiona Hardingham
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English
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"After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected "until death do us part" to mean seven decades. In the name of marriage survival, they quickly...
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English
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an irresistible story of love and empowerment about a young woman with a complicated family, a handsome man who might be "the one," and an IOU that changes everything. Fixie Farr has always lived by her father's motto: "Family first." But ever since her dad passed away, leaving his charming kitchen supply store in the hands of his children, Fixie spends all her time picking up the slack...
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English
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Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding...
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Series
Vega Jane volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
This is it. Vega Jane's time. She's been lied to her whole life, so she breaks away from Wormwood, the only home she's ever known, in search of the truth. She battles horrors to fight her way across the Quag with her best friend, Delph, and her mysterious canine, Harry Two. Against all odds, they survive unimaginable dangers and make it through. And into a new world that's even worse. Not because deadly beasts roam the cobblestones, but because the...
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English
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"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him...
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Language
English
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"From the author of the highly acclaimed The Railwayman's Wife, called a "literary and literate gem" by Psychology Today, comes an emotionally resonant and profound new novel of two families, interconnected through the house that bears witness to their lives. When Elsie Gormley leaves the Brisbane house in which she has lived for more than sixty years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, eager to establish their new life. As they settle in, Lucy and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (12 hours and 30 minutes) : digital, CD audio 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Read by Elizabeth Knowelden, Fiona Hardingham, Emma Fenney. For fans of fast-paced historical thrillers like Our Woman in Moscow and The Rose Code, Kelly Rimmer's dramatic new novel follows two female SOE operatives whose lives will be determined by a double agent in their midst. Twenty-five years after the end of the war, Noah Ainsworth is still preoccupied with those perilous, exhilarating years as a British SOE operative in France. A head injury...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, is assailed on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable, while the Commandant capitalizes on his madness to bolster her own power ... the lives of all those in the Empire hang in the balance. Far to the east, Laia of Serra knows the fate of the world lies in stopping the Nightbringer. But while hunting for a way to bring him down, Laia is drawn into a battle she never thought she'd...
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English
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"Call Ava romantic, but she thinks love should be found in the real world, not on apps that filter men by height, job, or astrological sign. She believes in feelings, not algorithms. So after a recent breakup and dating app debacle, she decides to put love on hold and escapes to a remote writers' retreat in coastal Italy. She's determined to finish writing the novel she's been fantasizing about, even though it means leaving her close-knit group of...
10) The stars below
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heroine Vega Jane and evil sorcerer Necro are on a collision course to determine the future of their world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is a time of trouble in the Northern Kingdoms because a group of power-hungry polar bears called Roguers has been snatching cubs from their mothers and killing those who resist; but Svenna is not about to relinquish her two cubs to that fate, so she agrees to go with the Roguers and serve Mystress of the Hands if her cubs, who have special powers, are allowed to stay with her cousin--but nobody is truly safe when a way of life is collapsing around...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
318 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the power-hungry Grand-Patek protecting the dangerous Ice Clock, it's up to cubs Stellan, Jytte, Third, and Froya to convince the animals of Ga'Hoole to join the resistance.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
409 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
Author
Series
Bears of the ice volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a race against time, young polar bear cubs travel the icy north searching for a way to rescue their land from an evil cult and save the world from a cataclysm."--Publisher's description.
16) The keeper
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed.